Frederick Thomas Beck (1886-1962). Color portrait of Fred Beck framed by two baseball bats. A 'B' is in the top left corner and 'Rustlers' is in the top right corner. The team is the Boston Rustlers (1911), formerly the Boston Doves. Verso:...

An African-American woman in servant's dress and head scarf sits in a wooden chair reading a newspaper. The woman, Rebecca Porter, was born a slave in Virginia. After the war, she spent most of her life working in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Rebecca...

Portrait of Police Lieutenant James D. Beck of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing his Louisville Police Department uniform. The photograph has been painted on to crop his image. Printed on back of image: Former submarine aid, now Louisville policeman....

Rebecca Porter, as Mom Beck in the Little Colonel book series, sits holding a little girl posing as The Little Colonel in her lap. The little girl is not Hattie Cochran, who was the real-life model for the character. Title supplied by cataloger.